In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty-he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world-alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

We're trapped in a world that's troubled with pain. As long as a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.