Die when you will, you need not wear — Beauty

"The beautiful seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness."

"Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that."

"What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or wingëd air."

"Unfortunately, truth is neither a listable nor a decidable property; nor is the truth of a statement of arithmetic. The American logician John Myhill has used the term prospective to characterize those attributes of the world that are neither listable nor decidable. They are properties that cannot be recognized by the application of some formula, made to conform to a rule, or generated by some computer program. They are characterized by incessant novelty that cannot be encompassed by any finite set of rules. Beauty, ugliness, truth, harmony, simplicity, and poetry are names we give to some of the attributes of this sort. There is no way of listing all examples of beauty or ugliness, nor any procedure for saying whether or not something possesses either of those attributes, without redefining them in some more restrictive fashion that kills their prospective character."

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

"I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic."