Where none admire, tis useless to excel; — Beauty

"Die when you will, you need not wear At heavens Court a form more fair Than Beauty here on Earth has given: Keep but the lovely looks we see The voice we hear, and you will be An angel ready-made for heaven."

"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."

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