“Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.”

“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.”