There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love.

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

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