» The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
» Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
» It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
» One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
» He who considers too much will perform little.
» Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
» Appearance rules the world.
» Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
» 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.
» The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.