Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

All art is quite useless.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.