One idea lights a thousand candles.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Friendship buys friendship.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.