“Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.”

“Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty”

““I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”

“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works”

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'you have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair'”