"Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”

“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”

“Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.”

“It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”

“Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.”

“Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.”

“If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.”

“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.”