“Nature gives beauty; fortune, wealth in vain.”

167.
On the Virtues

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.

Broken Lights Diaries 1957-59.

"Poets of the People" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).
Context: There are two modes of criticism. One which … crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant.
There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

On Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Outline Teaching on Asceticism and Stillness in the Solitary Life, vol. 1, p. 32
The Philokalia