One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

If the proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many goods, kind people there are.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply, by the lives they lead.

There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision

They seemed to suddenly come upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in a winter wood.

Make one's center of life inside one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-deprecation.