Benevolence Quote by Samuel Johnson

“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty…

— Plato

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or…

— George Henry Lewes

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— Walter Lippmann

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

— Ned Rorem

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

— William Hazlitt

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares…

— Charles Baudelaire