To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.