The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.