To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.