Life is a festival only to the wise.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.