Good looks are a snare, especially to them that haven't got 'em. -Mrs. Whitney.

The beauty of the face is a frail possession, a short-lived flower, only attached to the mere epidermis; but that of the mind is innate and unchangeable. I have, therefore, been long seeking a way to give you that kind of beauty which years cannot destroy, to innoculate your mind with the love of learning, and to insinuate into you a desire for knowledge.

-Molière.

Beauty has little to do with engaging the love of woman. The air, manner, tone, the conversation, the something that interests, the something to be proud of,--these are the attributes of the man made to be loved.

-Bulwer.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray;
Who can tread sure on the smooth slippery way?
Pleased with the passage, we glide swiftly on,
And see the dangers which we cannot shun.

-Dryden.

The desire of the child is towards its father and mother, when he becomes conscious of the attractions of beauty his desire is towards young and beautiful women; when he comes to have a wife and children his desire is towards them;

when he obtains office his desire is towards his sovereign. But the man of great filial piety to the end of his life has his desire toward his parents.

-Mencius, Wan Chang (pt. i., ch. i.).

Beauty in the possession of an unthinking woman is more dangerous than a drawn sword in the hands of an idiot.

After all, the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face; and true proportions the beauty of architecture; as true measures that of harmony and music.

-Shaftesbury.

Deprived of virtue, where is beauty's power? Her dimpled smiles, her roses, charm no more; So much can guilt the loveliest form deflower, We loathe that beauty which we loved before. -Robert Fergusson.

GENIUS.

A fitful spark that cleaves the night,
And leaves a glory in its track;
No power can check its lightning flight,
On, upward, never looking back.

-J. C. H.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire. -Sir. F. Reynolds.

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;

Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower

Its flash is still the same.

-Lydia M. Child.

All the means of action,—

The shapeless masses, the materials,—
Lie everywhere about us. What we need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal, bright and clear.
That fire is genius.

-Longfellow.

But the sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius.

-Longinus.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages. -La Bruyère.

The light of other minds is as necessary to the play and development of genius as the light of other bodies is to the play and radiation of the diamond. A diamond, incarcerated in a subterraneous prison, rough and unpolished differs not from a common stone, and a Newton and Shakspeare, deprived of kindred minds and born amongst savages, savages had died.

-Colton.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign-that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him.

-Swift.

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death."

-Mountford.

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part.

-La Bruyère.

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength.

The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars, but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.

-Bayne.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.

-Coleridge.

Time, place, and action may with pains be

wrought,

But genius must be born; and never can be

taught.

-Dryden.

The man of genius dwells with men and with nature; the man of talent in his study; but the clever man dances here, there, and everywhere, like a butterfly in a hurricane, striking everything and enjoying nothing, but too light to be dashed to pieces.

-Hazlitt.

How many wonderful men, and who possessed the noblest genius, have died without ever being spoken of! How many live at the present moment of whom men do not speak, and of whom they will never speak.

-La Bruyère.