Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.