"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."