Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
In the presence of animals, we witness the inherent beauty of simplicity, authenticity, and the purity of being.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Love is a mirror that reflects our inner beauty, reminding us of our worthiness and showing us the best version of ourselves.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.