Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.