And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

You will not be able to effectively utilize your inherited wealth if you do not work diligently

Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.

Only a coward will not make the necessary changes in his or her life to make it a better one.

You can't flirt with me during a lockdown. My eyes narrow. It's unethical.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

If you are trying to grow your qualified search traffic, you have to combine your content marketing with your SEO efforts.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.