The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.

Beauty is the gift of God.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit