It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. Johnson, Samuel
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. Lehrer, Tom
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that […]
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense…. Palmer, Vance
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. Washington, George
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. Seneca
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the […]
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Seneca
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. Hoffer, Eric
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Stevenson, Robert Louis