Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

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.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.