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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.

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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

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And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were ...more