Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.