Destiny Quote by Robertson Davies

“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other…

— Osamu Dazai

“You have a face that suits a woman For her soul's screen-- The sort of beauty that's called human In hell, Faustine.”

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that…

— Milan Kundera

“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul,…

— George Bernard Shaw

“She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind. But she who…

— David O. McKay

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various…

— Robert Burns

“She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention,…

— Rebecca Miller

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening…

— James Allen