Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch, the guy makes a great swing. And... →
Phil Humber
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many... →
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the... →
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain.... →
William Morris Hunt
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a... →
John Hurt