BEAUTY
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.