Pastoral Resources

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.