The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
James Allen

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
Diane von Furstenberg

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
Marlene Dietrich

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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.
Victor Hugo

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Susan Sontag