In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.-Bulwer Lytton. Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul.-Bancroft. Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.-Keats. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur, these are the tri Even virtue is more fair when it appears in umphs of all-powerful beauty.—Joanna Baillie. a beautiful person.-Virgil. The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it.-Goethe. There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.—Addison. The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture; as true measures that of harmony and music.-Shaftesbury. Beauty, the fading rainbow's pride.— Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood.-Shakespeare. The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.-Ruffini. The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!- Whittier. It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any man should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. Clarendon. Rare is the union of beauty and virtue.— Juvenal. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.-Ninon de l'Enclos. The essence of the beautiful is unity in va riety—Mendelssohn. Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay -Young. Beauty draws us with a single hair.-Pope. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs. How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the how many good offices and civilities, are required Infinite.-Bancroft. among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!-Bruyère. As Congreve says, there is in true beauty something which vulgar souls cannot admire; so can no dirt or rags hide this something from those souls which are not of the vulgar stamp.Fielding. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.- What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility to beauty?-Beecher." Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.-Father André. Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.Winckelmann. Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet, it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.-Richter. Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornafrom its dominion; but regard it not a pearl of ment; but is, when unadorned, adorned the price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.- most.-Thomson. Tupper. An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.-Bossuet. Campbell. Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles. must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.-Jane Porter. Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.-Leigh Hunt. The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Tuckerman. The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist.-Junius. Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit! The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.Coleridge. If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.-Raleigh. We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.Montaigne. Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heaven's light vain. Pierpont. Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.- Whittier. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is the wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.--Cecil. Oesser taught me that the ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquillity.-Goethe. Beauty is a transitory flower; even while it lasts it palls on the roving sense when held too near, or dwelling there too long.-Jeffrey. How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But, alas! why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?-Madame de Surin. It is seldom the case that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.-Bacon. That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.—Colton. The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.—Whipple. O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!-Barry Cornwall. Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.-Henry Home. Beauty is a frail good.-Ovid. By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers; by doing good, we foster those already belonging to humanity.Howard. In all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.-Ruskin. Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.-Landor. Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love-bait.-Spenser. It is the eternal law, that first in beauty should be first in might.-Keats. The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.—Mrs. Stowe. Around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!- Young. He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.-Joubert. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.— Addison. There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.-Pope. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!-Shakespeare. We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.-Emerson. It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty, we shall one day know as truth.Schiller. Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.Willmott. There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of the characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David.— Ruskin. When beggars die there are no comets seen. In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal, and live upon their fellowmen as a natural food. These interesting but formidable bipeds, having caught their victim, invariably select one part of his body on which to fasten their relentless grinders. The part thus selected is peculiarly susceptible, providence having made it alive to the least nibble; it is situated just above the hip-joint; it is protected by a tegument of exquisite fibre, vulgarly called the breeches pocket.— Bulwer Lytton. Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.— Colton. The true beggar is the only king above all comparison.-Lessing. When paupers evince any consciousness of neglect, they are instantly spurned; if they complain this time of a scanty dole, the next they will have none. Though our donations are made to please ourselves, we insist upon those who receive our alms being pleased with them.-Zimmermann. BEHAVIOR. Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.-Seneca. Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities.-Sir W. Temple. I have known men disagreeably forward from their shyness.-Arnold. What is becoming is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming.-Tully. Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage.-Feltham. Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.-Goethe. BELIEF. Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.-Cæsar. I am not afraid of those tender and scrupulous consciences, who are ever cautious of professing and believing too much; if they are sincerely in the wrong, I forgive their errors, and respect their integrity. The men I am afraid of are the men who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything. Bishop Shipley. The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome.Swift. There are three means of believing, — by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration.—Pascal. You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.-Coleridge. When, in your last hour (think of this), all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity, imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment, then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.-Richter. Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence.-Ruffini. Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practised but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act. Shaftesbury. For his bounty, there was no winter in it; an autumn it was, that grew the more by reaping-Shakespeare. The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.—Rousseau. There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection.-Mackenzie. There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benig nity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.-Barrow. Doubtless that is the best charity which, Nilus-like, hath the several streams thereof seen, but the fountain concealed.-Rev. T. Gouge. |