No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
The highest Beauty should be plain set.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.