The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.