Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.