There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Beauty is less important than quality.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.