There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit beauty intelligence the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility you are not attractive - you are leaking.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

At fifteen beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.