We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Shallow men believe in luck.