There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.