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All kinds of beauty don't inspire love; there is a kind that pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

It doesn't help your five-iron if you're pretty.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.

Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.