What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.