“Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.”

“Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”

“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; the New English Bible is motivated by the opposite, an anxiety not to bore or intimidate. It is driven, in other words, by the desire to please and, in that way, is a form of language which has died.”

“Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold.”