"Every beauty, when out of it's place,..." - Quote by Voltaire

“It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”

“He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.”

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”

“Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.”

“There were no ugly people in Ethiopia”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.”

“A story without context is like a diamond without a mounting. The stone may be beautiful lying loose on a table, but when it is carefully mounted in the right setting it can dazzle you with its brilliance and sparkling beauty.”