Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.