To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess - William Shakespeare
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? - Mahatma Gandhi
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. - Ralph Waldo Emerson