“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”

“It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.”

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.”