What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Speech is civilization itself.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.