Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. — George William Russell

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. — Christina Rossetti
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. — Jean Toomer
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. — George William Russell
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. — George William Russell
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. — George William Russell