Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.