Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Every thought you cultivate is a brushstroke on the canvas of your life. Your life then, is an outer picture of your inner thoughts.

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

There have been other girls. But they weren't her.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

If people think you are this amazing, own it.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.