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“To be premature is to be perfect.” — O.W.

“Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but itself.” — O.W.

“Genius in a woman is the mystic laurel of Apollo springing from the soft breast of Daphne. It hastens the growing and sometimes breaks the heart from which it springs.” — M.C.

“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.” — K.M.

“A man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.” — G.E.

“Any great achievement in acting or in music grows with the growth. Whenever an artist has been able to say ‘I came, I saw, I conquered,’ it has been at the end of patient practice. Genius is at first little more than a great capacity for receiving (discipline). Your muscles, your whole frame must go like a watch true, true, true, true as a hair.” — G.E.

“If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could not otherwise be explained than by making answer, ‘Because it was he; because it was I’.” — Montaigne.

“The strongest man is he who stands most alone.” — Henrik Ibsen.

“Happy people are never brilliant. It implies friction.” — K.M.

“It is not naturally or generally, the happy who are the most anxious for a prolongation of the present life or for a life hereafter; it is those who have never been happy.” — J.S.M.

“… it is no unnatural part of the idea of a happy life, that life itself is to be laid down, after the best that it can give has been fully enjoyed through a long lapse of time; when all its pleasures, like those of benevolence, are familiar, and nothing untasted or unknown is left to stimulate curiosity and keep up the desire of prolonged existence.” — J.S.M.

“Push everything as far as it will go.” — O.W.

“The old desire everything — the middle-aged believe everything — the young know everything.” — O.W.

“To love madly — perhaps is not wise — yet should you love madly — it is far wiser than not to love at all.” — M.M.

“People who learn only from experience do not allow for intuition.” — A.H.H.

“No life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.” — O.W.

“We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.” — O.W.

“If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.” — O.W.

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” — O.W.

“Conscience and cowardice are the same things. Conscience is the trade mark of the firm. That is all.” — O.W.

“To realise one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.” — O.W.