If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"