Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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.