“Beauty that arose out of pain.”

“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

“The beauty of physical pain is that it wipes out the other forms of pain.”

“When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.”

“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words”

“...The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry. ... Unintentional beauty. Yes. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake.”