He perceived the relation of earthly beauty and heavenly truth.

The great gift of Love binds and supports us all and Plato gave the name of the divine Eros, that is divine love, to an inspired devotion to the Imperishable.

He placed goodness--the Good--at the top of the great scale of Ideas which he constructed.

The Good was, to him, the highest Idea and the uttermost of which we can conceive:--Good, whose properties he made manifest by every means his lofty and lucid mind could command.

This heathen, my brethren and sisters, was well worthy of the grace bestowed on us.