Beauty without expression is boring.
We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
This time, like all time, is a very good one but if we know what to do with it.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.