"The secret of ugliness consists not in..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.”

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”

“He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.”

“It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.”

“When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.”

“The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.”

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”