 The reward of a thing well done is having done it. |
| Beauty without expression is boring. |
| A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. |
| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. |
| In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. |
| A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. |
| Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. |
| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. |
| Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. |
| This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. |
| Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. |
| God enters by a private door into every individual. |
| A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. |
| Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. |
| The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. |
| The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. |
| Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
| The years teach much which the days never know. |
| There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. |
| A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. |
