Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

A person however learned and qualified in his lifes work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. – Hazrat Inayat Khan