Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.