Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.