Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.