Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. |
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. |
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. |
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. |
Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back |
God alone can finish |
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. |
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men |
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts / the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. |
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. |
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue |
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. |
He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. |
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great |
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. |