“The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.” IfsBeautyIncreaseExaminationCriteriaTrue Beauty Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.” IfsWayMadeEasyBloodAtheismDelightPositive AtheismEasy Way Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?” IfsMenWayArtFeelingsFallCoursesEnjoyNaturalPayAdvantagePerfectionSuperiorsImperfectionRefinement Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.” IfsLoveDiesFallPeriodsFruitMaturityPreciseNeglected Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.” IfsMindHumansProduceParticularFlowerMethodFruitSpotsSoilHuman MindWeed Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.” IfsMenWorldGivingLittlesCountryReasonPracticeDegreesFindingsGenerosityReason WhyGenerousCatchingWhy MeSmallpox Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
