I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?