Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond,...
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can...
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.