Poetry creates life. [ Fred. W. Robertson ]
Talent works, genius creates. [ Schumann ]
One glance of Thine creates a day. [ Watts ]
Faith creates the virtues in which it believes. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]
Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
Art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates. [ John Opie ]
A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. [ William Ellery Channing ]
No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. [ Montaigne ]
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. [ Talleyrand ]
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime. [ Talleyrand ]
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. [ Chamfort ]
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. [ Paxton Hood ]
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. [ Pascal ]
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. [ Hazlitt ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
After all, the head only reproduces what the heart creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove. [ G. J. W. Melville ]
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette: it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. [ Robert Adam ]
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]
God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. [ M. Luther ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]