"Art is much, but love is more...." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.”

“Many a crownCovers bald foreheads.”

“I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.”

“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.”

“The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.”

“As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.”

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”