Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
