In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

In the colored reflection we have Life.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.