[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.