“Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.” WorldBeautifulPleasureEndureCalmIntellectSensualitySensualBordersClimbingBubblesSublimeUnseenSoapSparklingSensual PleasureSoap Bubbles Author:John H Aughey
“Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!” MenWorldFirstsBeautifulStarsMoralDestinyTalentMoralityEternalIntellectPlanesVisibleGleam Author:Thomas Carlyle
“In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating city of Lisbon--its neighborhoods, its writers, its customs, its cuisine--and offers an intimate portrait of his beloved family. With his far-reaching intellect Graham is the ideal travelling companion, and The Moon, Come to Earth is a beautiful and surprising book.” KindBookEarthBeautifulCitiesJourneyOffersMoonIdealsIntellectBelovedIntimateReachingFascinatingNeighborhoodCompanionCustomsSurprisingPortraitsCuisinePhilipBeloved Family Author:Margot Livesey
“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.” MenWorldWellsLongWholeEyeBeautifulFacesPresidentWhiteGriefViolenceChildhoodTearsHe ManExpressionDiedIntellectWhole WorldSensationsThroatIdolsSweetnessGentlenessSolemnChokeGrandeurAbrahamSomething BeautifulGodlikePlacidTears In My Eyes Author:Elizabeth Keckley
“We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit: in the capacity to reflect that which, for lack of a more precise word, we choose to call “the divine,” i.e. that which is true and beautiful beyond all manifestation, that which remains timeless (and therefore unchangeable) within all changes.” MenBelieveBeautifulSpiritLyingValuesDivineCreaturesCapacityRemainsMereIntellectManifestationTimelessPreciseUnchangeable Book:The Lightning and the Sun Source: The Lightning and the Sun
“I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.” MenWorldBelieveAgeBeautifulI BelievePoetLateIntellectComplainingEvery ManToo LateFablesVulgarityIndignant Author:Gabriele d'Annunzio