~ Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ~

~ To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. ~

~ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~

~ Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~

~ The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. ~

~ When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~

~ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. ~

~ The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~

~ People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows ~

~ Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. ~

~ Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. ~

~ There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ~

~ Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? ~

~ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~

~ Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ~