Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.