Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

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.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Great souls endure in silence.