Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis 25 order and for its essence unity. Father André.
Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps sinful, to be gloomy. Johnson.
Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit is his book or his piece of art. Ruskin.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from; and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and colour of its birthplace. Holmes.
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valour, which should be lifted up to such a height that, holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness even in the midst of miseries. Sir P. Sidney.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, 30 by whatever name it may be called. J. S. Mill.
Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man. Burke.
Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us. Emerson.
Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic vitality cannot live long, and can neither be nor ever become great. Goethe.
Whatever expands the affections or enlarges the sphere of our sympathies, whatever makes us feel our relation to the universe, and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to the great and beneficent Cause of all, must unquestionably refine our nature and elevate us in the scale of being. Channing.