"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."