Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

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

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.

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.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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.