Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.