Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.