"Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult."

"The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health."

"Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love."

"Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest."

"When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction."

"One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions."

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."

"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."

"The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy."