Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before.…

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said.