Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the
pretensions of a whole life.--_Bignicout._
If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.--_Alphonse
Karr._
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed
the laws of aesthetic beauty, concur in maintaining that the real
truthfulness of all works of imagination--sculpture, painting, written
fiction--is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to
represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a
truth.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
An outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has
been refused.--_Gibbon._
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly apprehend
itself.--_Goethe._
~Bed.~--The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet
we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it
early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it
late.--_Colton._
What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to
me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the
world.--_Napoleon._
~Beggars.~--He is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind
it. He is not required to put on court mourning. He weareth all colors,
fearing none. His costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's.
He is the only man in the universe who is not obliged to study
appearances.--_Lamb._