Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beautyJean de La BruyèremodestymeritstrengthbeautyCopy this quote
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand