A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it