ith discretion, both in discourse and company of
the better sort.--_Bacon._

~Beauty.~--The beautiful is always severe.--_Segur._

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's
commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it
is ever pleading for respect and liking, and, by the eyes of others is
ever sending to their hearts for love. Yet even this hath this
inconvenience in it--that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing
of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind
is ill.--_Feltham._

Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the
caprices of the world.--_X. Doudan._

No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and
humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty
without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.--_John
Ray._

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to
beauty.--_Burke._

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is
something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and
expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the
ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the
imagination.--_Cicero._

A lovely girl is above all rank.--_Charles Buxton._

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it
awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is
perhaps one element of its might.--_Tuckerman._

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes
away.--_Mere._

In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and
life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on
every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth
the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.--_Mazzini._

Beauty is God's handwriting, a wayside sacrament.--_Milton._

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the
pretensions of a whole life.--_Bignicout._

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.--_Alphonse
Karr._

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed
the laws of aesthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the real
truthfulness of all works of imagination--sculpture, painting, written
fiction--is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to
represen