O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.