Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent."
"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."