The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.