Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.