The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.