"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”

“You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.”

“The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.”

“In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.”

“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.”

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

“Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!”