"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "… - John Ruskin

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I should recommend...keeping...a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this.