I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo