Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

How goodness heightens beauty!

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time soothing the soul.