In art, the best is good enough.

Let there be truth between us.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.