Whatever is great promotes cultivation as 45 soon as we are aware of it. Goethe.
Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged with melancholy. The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. A prophet is sadder than other men; and He who was greater than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief." Mrs. Child.
Whatever is, is right. Pope.
Whatever is known to thyself alone has always very great value. Emerson.
Whatever is natural admits of variety. Mme. de Stäel.
Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and impairs others; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that is hurt for a wrong. Bacon.
Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to be burnt in this world. Carlyle.
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy—its figures, its trees, or its palaces—without a spot. Willmott.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 5 well. Lord Chesterfield.
Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd always redounds to his advantage, even if it sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of which his powers of swimming and wading must be put to the test again. Goethe.