The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.