I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?
There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he w...
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and ear...
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.