The perception of beauty is a moral test.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.