We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
Mortal beauty stings while it delights.
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
