A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire