Affection is a coal that must be cooled.

Affection is like having a heartboner

Affection blinds reason.

Affection is antithetical to imagination — When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Beauty is the soul striving to make itself visible.

Beauty is the crystallization of the life and power to which everything is a means.

Beauty is a thing that lives with kindness.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Belonging is necessary for growth. We must all belong to something before we are anything.

Belonging is always also about entering into a common bond of guilt, of guilt and of inevitable compromise.

Belonging is a desire, partly a desire to lose ourselves.

Character is the most effective means of persuasion.

Character is the ability to win an argument by keeping your mouth shut.

Character is impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Character is what Nature has engraven on us; can we then efface it?