“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“… beds last on an average much longer than marriages…”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”

“‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"

"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."

"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”

“A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”

“Beauty like hers is genius.”

“… because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”