In order to die, you must first have lived.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.