Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.