Fairest

The crow thinks her own birds fairest.

The fairest rose is at last withered.

As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

"Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who in the land is fairest of all?" And then the mirror would always reply: "You, my queen, are fairest of all."

O time, suspend your flight! and you, happy hours, suspend your race: let us savor the fleeting delights of our fairest days!

She was the fairest in the whole land.

Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

"Twice seven nymphs have I, beautiful to see; / one, Deiopeia, fairest of the fair, / in lasting wedlock will I link to thee, / thy life-long years for such deserts to share, / and make thee parent of an offspring fair."

Westward of Arran as I sailed away; / I saw the fairest sight eye can behold-- / Rocks which, illumined by the morning's ray, / Seemed like a glorious city built of gold.