Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Monday, 30 December 2024

Sunday, 29 December 2024

Youth smiles without any reason. 
It is one of its chiefest charms.

Saturday, 28 December 2024

Friday, 27 December 2024

Tact is the art of making a point 
without making an enemy.

Thursday, 26 December 2024

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Monday, 23 December 2024

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. 
The reward is the act of struggle itself, 
not what you win.

Sunday, 22 December 2024

Saturday, 21 December 2024

The painter should not paint what he sees, 
but what will be seen.

Friday, 20 December 2024

Thursday, 19 December 2024

Music is the one incorporeal entrance 
into the higher world of knowledge 
which comprehends mankind 
but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, 
it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Monday, 16 December 2024


Sunday, 15 December 2024

I mean, the general rule is 
if you're not prepared to make a mistake, 
you're not going to make much progress.

Saturday, 14 December 2024

Friday, 13 December 2024

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, 
and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, 
give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Thursday, 12 December 2024

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Where's your will to be weird?

Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Monday, 9 December 2024

Books are like imprisoned souls 
till someone takes them down from a shelf 
and frees them.

Sunday, 8 December 2024

Saturday, 7 December 2024

No pressure, 
no diamonds.

Friday, 6 December 2024

Thursday, 5 December 2024

Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal. 
As spirits they belong to the eternal world, 
but as animals they inhabit time.

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Tuesday, 3 December 2024

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, 
especially ambitious young men and women.

Monday, 2 December 2024

Sunday, 1 December 2024

I have never known so much naive conviction 
allied to greater intellectual poverty.