Beauty of style and harmony and grace
and good rhythm depend on Simplicity
- Plato


A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
pass into nothingness.
- John Keats


Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple
as hunger. There is really nothing to
be said about it. It is like the perfume
of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- W. Somerset Maugham


The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


The Fountain of Beauty

Beauty is an all-pervading presence.
It unfolds to the numberless flowers
of the Spring it waves in the
branches of the trees and in the green
blades of grass; it haunts the depths of
the earth and the sea, and gleams out in
the hues of the shell and the precious
stone. And not only these minute objects,
but the ocean, the mountains, the couds,
the heavens, the stars, the rising and
the setting sun, all overflow with
beauty. The universe is its temple;
and those men who are alive to
it themselves encompassed with it on every
side. Now, this beauty is so precious, the
enjoyment it gives so refined and pure,
so congenial and so akin to worship
that it is pain living in the midst of it,
and living almost as blind to it, as if,
instead of this fair earth and glorious sky,
they were tenants of a dungeon. An infinite
joy is lost to the world by the want of
culture of this spiritual endowment. The
greatest truths are wronged if not linked with
beauty, and they win their way most surely
and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this
their natural and fit attire.