Sin is essentially a departure from God. [ Luther ]

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

To swear to love always is to affirm that two beings essentially changeable will never change.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. [ Shenstone ]

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but the weak flavor of genius in a person essentially common is detestable. [ Holmes ]

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. [ Schlegel ]

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of the beautiful. All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste without respect to the object. They purify the thoughts as tragedy purifies the passions. Their accidental effects are not worth consideration, - there are souls to whom even a vestal is not holy. [ Schlegel ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]