“Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.”

“I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.”

“Beauty is a fragile gift.”

“Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.”

“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”