The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.