The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
Time flies on restless pinions – constant never.
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow – No night but hath its morn.
Truth lives on in the midst of deception...
I am better than my reputation.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist.
To save all we must risk all.
Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.
Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.