I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
All thoughts start from emotions.
life without love, is no life at all
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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