The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

The Mayflower, Or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims (ed. 1846)