Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
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.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
