Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
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.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
The soul preserves beauty.