Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
