Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

All high beauty has a moral element in it.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.