Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.