I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.