A joy shared is a joy doubled.

Life's objective is life itself.

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

Experience is only half of experience.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.