"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler.

"Oh wind, if Winter comes - can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley.

“As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation; no more can the mind without learning. Thus, each is feeble without the other.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero.

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine.

Palais Garnier | Let Beauty Reign.

"That sweet city with her dreaming spires, she need not June for beauty's heightening." - Matthew Arnold on Oxford.

"The gates of hell are open, night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way; But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labour lies." - Virgil's Aeneid.

"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that." - William Hazlitt.

Schwerin Castle | Neuschwanstein of the North.

"We will walk on our own feet, we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own minds. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus.

Make Universities Great Again.

“All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.” - Samuel Johnson.

Caravaggio | Master of Light.

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms  -  to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Viktor E. Frankl.

Sandro Botticelli | Renaissance, Defined.

Vienna | Old World.

"Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

“Be prepared to make a defence to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.” - Saint Peter.

The ceiling's of the Raphael Rooms | Vatican City.