It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

To love beauty is to see light.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.