Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
How sweet the morning air is!. . . How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green. . . " You're going to end up with a big green painting.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.