A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that although they might be very beautiful would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep or I'd be rotten to the core.

Exuberance is beauty.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue even beauty is mysterious.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity maybe even for their beauty.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Great perils have this beauty that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

It's not beauty but fine qualities my girl that keep a husband.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth goodness and beauty are one. In the morning when they commit their discovery to paper when others read it written there it looks wholly ridiculous.