Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

To love beauty is to see light.