Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.