Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.