Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says.""Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark.""But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

Wisdom is finer than pearls.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

To step aside is human.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.