We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.