The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
