He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

—Friedrich Schiller

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

—William Cowper

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

—Samuel Daniel

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

—Philip James Bailey

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

—Edmund Burke