“Deemest thou labor
Only is earnest?
Grave is all beauty,
Solemn is joy.”

“I cry only for joy. I can see something beautiful and cry. And I'm not ashamed of it. After all, crying from joy is much better than from weakness.”

“I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.”

“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”

“Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.”

“To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.”

“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful”

“To this man life is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death.”