Every artist was first an amateur.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Beauty without expression is boring.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Our best thoughts come from others.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
The years teach much which the days never know.
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
