I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty. Aurora, in the shape of a cherry cheeked lass. It is almost impossible to withstand two enemies at once, such as wine within and beauty without. A person who admires beauty must be inconstant, for he will admire it wherever he meets with it; consequently, his mistress can only share that admiration with others. If dress is not beauty, it is frequently much more than beauty. The love of beauty is the loss of reason. Beauty is apt to depend too much on self. True beauty is seated in the mind. Beauties may be allowed to call in the assistance of affection, but ugliness and affection will never go down. If dress is not beauty, it is frequently much more than beauty. The love of beauty is the loss of reason. Beauty is apt to depend too much on itself. True beauty is seated in the mind. Beauties may be allowed to call in the assistance of affection, but ugliness and affection will never go down. Even in silence, beauty is eloquent beyond the power of words. Superior beauty claims superior respect. Here is a powerful charm in mourning beauty, which holds the generous heart almost entirely at its disposal.

If girls could only be made to understand that youth is always beautiful, they would be even prettier than they are. There is a beauty in ever family. To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. The worst of Bath was, the number of its plain women. There certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! They were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of it! It was evident how little the women were used to the sight of anything tolerable, by the effect which a man of decent appearance produced. Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men. There is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no reliable refinement, without strengths as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy. As well might you look good fruit and blossom on a rootless and sapless tree as for charms that will endure in a feeble and relaxed nature. For a little while the blooming semblance of beauty may flourish round weakness; but it cannot bear a blast; it soon fades, even in severest sunshine. If beauty is given for the purpose of pleasing, she who pleases most is the most beautiful. 

There is, in general, nothing so insipid, so uninteresting, as a beauty. There is an invisible charm, a nameless grace which depends not on beauty, and which strikes the heart in a moment. Of all those indescribable things which influences the mind, and which are most apt to persuade, none is so powerful an orator, so feelingly eloquent, as beauty. How amiable is that beauty which has its foundation in goodness! Does not beauty constrain our admiration? In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. We can neither get beauty when we have not it; nor when we have it. All beauty is sexless in the eyes of the artist at his work (which explains why some do not have the sex; it would tarnish their image in the eyes of some). The gods themselves felt troubled at seeing the champion of the Earth so brought to his end. However, Jupiter with cheerful countenance thus addressed them: “I am pleased to see your concern, my princes, and am gratified to perceive that I am the ruler of a loyal people and that my son enjoys your favor. For although your interest in him arises from his noble deeds, yet it is not the less gratifying to me. However, now I say to you, Fear not. He who conquered all else is not to be conquered by those flames which you see blazing on Mount Oeta. Only his mother’s share in him can perish; what he derived from me is immortal. I shall take him, dead to Earth, to the heavenly shores, and I require of you all to receive him kindly. If any of you feel grieved at his attaining this honor, yet no one can deny that he has deserved it.”