Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

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

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

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

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Appearance rules the world.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.