Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.