Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.