"Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both."

"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective w…"

"Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil."

"Abraham Lincoln: You think you've been cheated because you are ugly, but I am here to show you otherwise. Come! There…"

"Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seek…"

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting … but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that …"

"Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own."

"Help resolve conflicts and guide decision-making."

"Preserve cultural knowledge in a simple, memorable way."