Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.