By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. – Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is truths smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. – Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers