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2. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

3. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

4. All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

5. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

6. Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

7. Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

8. Beauty and folly are old companions.

9. Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth, Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

10. Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

11. Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

12. Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object, which delights us.

13. Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

14. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

15. Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

16. Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

17. Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

18. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, A flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

19. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

20. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

21. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

22. Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

23. Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.

24. Beauty is the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

25. Beauty is the promise of happiness.

26. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

27. Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

28. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

29. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

30. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

31. Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

32. Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

33. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

34. For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

35. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

36. Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; If thou love it, it disturbs thee; If thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; If vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

37. Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

38. Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

39. Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

40. Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

41. Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired; The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed, And ease of heart her every look conveyed.

42. In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen in snow.

43. In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

44. Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

45. Not more the rose, the queen of flowers, Outblushes all the bloom of bower, Than she unrivall'd grace discloses; The sweetest rose, where all are roses.

46. Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.

47. O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

48. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

49. Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

50. Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

51. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

52. She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

53. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and in her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

54. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

55. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

56. The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

57. The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

58. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

59. The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul...

60.  Beauty is not caused, - it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...

61. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

62. The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

63. The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

64. The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

65. The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

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

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

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

69. There's no use being young without being beautiful, and no use being beautiful without being young.

70. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

71. 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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

73. Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

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

75. Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

76. 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.

77. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.

78. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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

80. When the candles are out all women are fair.

81. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. Therefore: Being and non-being produce each other.

82. When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

83. Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might - the majesty of Loveliness?