The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

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

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.