Imitation is suicide.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Beauty without expression is boring.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.