Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty.
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.