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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in
and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and
soul.
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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then
beauty is its own excuse for being.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is
goodness.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and
never see the Dawn!
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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf
of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no
superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands
related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as
beauty.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the
metaphysics of books.
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Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.
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Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not
know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may
not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have
looked.
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Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the
most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but
that which is good is always beautiful.
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their
beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf
of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to
be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases
to be enjoyed as light.
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We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.
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