Swift speedy time feathered with flying hours Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

For what the horse does under compulsion as Simon also observes is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

If you don't die of thirst there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness which we all yearn for or you can do the beauty of minutiae the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music or Neil Young.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

There is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.

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