The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!