Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

The will of man is his happiness.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

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.

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

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

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

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.