“Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul”

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.”

“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”