“The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.”
“No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.”
“Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.”
“This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.”
“Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”
“The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.”
“One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.”
“In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.”
“The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”
“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.”
“No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”
“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
“Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.”
“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.”
“Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.”
“If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.”
“While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.”
“As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.”
“We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?”