“Every time a successful man of business gives evidence to the world at large that business is not inconsistent with the highest cultivation of the nobler qualities, he is doing a public benefit.”

Arguing that practical success need not exclude cultivated character · Letter to his eldest sister, 1857

• Truth
• Work

“The testimony to an Ideal can be inferred by all of us from the fact that of things of the same kind we approve individuals more or less, and by admitting a better imply the possibility of a Best.”

Arguing from ordinary judgements of better and worse towards an ideal standard · Unpublished notes, Search for the Ideal

• Beauty
• Truth

“Art should be an instrument of this progress by always selecting the best phase of every individual, the best form of every type—i.e. the Ideal.”

Giving art a role in preserving and advancing ideal forms · Unpublished notes, Poetry and Art

• Art
• Beauty
• Hope