Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire- all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its soul in beauty. This must be your contribution to the world.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, wit…

God finds himself by creating.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from the…

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The blessed damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters still'd at even; She had three lilies in her hand, An…