"Love can do much, but duty more...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.”

“The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.”

“Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.”

“What wouldst thou do, old man?Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speakWhen power to flattery bows?”

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.”

“I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.”

“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.”

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

“The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”