"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."