Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.