Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Years do not always make age.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.