Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.