What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.