The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful