There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. William Penn
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. Washington Irving
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. Lord Chesterfield
