One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.