More From Pearl S. Buck
- "Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself."
- "It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."
- "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
More In Beauty
- "It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction."― Richard Le Gallienne
- "One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most."― Walter Pater
- "San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."― Rudyard Kipling