Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.