Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.