Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.