There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Everybody loves things that sparkle.
It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
