beauty
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
“Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart.”
“Exuberance is Beauty.”
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
“Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; and all that mighty heart is lying still!”
“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
“Find things beautiful as much as you can; most people find too little beautiful.”
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“Rarely do great beauty and virtue dwell together.”
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
“Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”