“[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”
“[B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.”
“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds”
“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”
“The most attractive quality of all is dignity.”
“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ”