Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

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.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.