To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
What’s old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.
Man is an imitative creature.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
Innocence has a friend in heaven.
The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.