The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. |
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. |
No human creature can give orders to love. |
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. |
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. |
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. |
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. |