In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors; but today we kneel only to Truth, follow only Beauty, and obey only Love.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.