In art the best is good enough. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

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

"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."

"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."