'Tis what I love determines how I love. [ George Eliot ]

It is our actual work which determines our value. [ George Bancroft ]

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us. [ Bovee ]

It is the unseen and spiritual in man that determines the outward and actual. [ Carlyle ]

He who determines to love only those who are faultless will soon find himself alone. [ Vihischti ]

What we like determines what we are and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. [ Bovee ]

Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]