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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.