“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey look…” — Franz Grillparzer

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.