It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude SteinThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de MontaigneA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardAt fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de BalzacAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauFlowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire