When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. – Bernard Berenson
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. – Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? – Bernard Berenson
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919