To Save All We Must Risk All.

Opposition Always Inflames The Enthusiast, Never Converts Him.

Happy He Who Learns To Bear What He Cannot Change.

I Know That We Often Tremble At An Empty Terror; Yet The False Fancy Brings A Real Misery.

The Iron Chain And The Silken Cord Are Both Equally Bonds.

The Voice Of Our Age Seems By No Means Favorable To Art, At All Events To That Kind Of Art To Which My Inquiry Is Directed. The Course Of Events Has Given A Direction To The Genius Of The Time That Threatens To Remove It Continually Further From The Ideal Of Art. For Art Has To Leave Reality, It Has To Raise Itself Bodily Above Necessity And Neediness; For Art Is The Daughter Of Freedom, And It Requires Its Prescriptions And Rules To Be Furnished By The Necessity Of Spirits And Not By That Of Matter.