The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Category Archive: 1749
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
In art the best is good enough.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.