“Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.”

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”

“The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.”

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

“Aren't all the heartbreaking days always the most beautiful ones?”