“If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.”

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake it’s all on its honor.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

He who considers too much will perform little.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

I am my own heaven and hell!

The world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

The first great law is to obey.

To grow up is to experience all sorts of heartaches & still manage to see the beauty in every pain.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty will save the world.

Stars fade away in the morning, but your beauty still remains evident. Perhaps stars envy you.

Beauty cannot be measured in megapixels.

There’s some beauty in a girl holding a glass of wine.

Sometimes you need to take a small break from the world to realise its beauty.

You may fall in love with the beauty of someone. But remember you have to live with the character, not the beauty.