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

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.