Only shallow people refuse to judge by appearances.

We can forgive a man for making an useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making an useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

~the Forever quotable Oscar Wilde