A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go