The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
Beauty can never really understand itself.
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.