“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion”
John Stuart Mill
“So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.”
William Shakespeare
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gladstone was what you'd call an ornamental rector. Some were neither use nor ornament. He was at least ornamental.”
Donald Wintersgill
“It's wiped. We lost it all, ... They had boats up in trees like Christmas ornaments. It's like a different world.”
Dan Parker
“Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”
Chanakya
“The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace”
John Owen