The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.