Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.