For brilliancy, no gem compares with the eyes of a beautiful woman. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

If commonsense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars. [ Fernan Caballero ]

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. [ Cervantes ]

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. [ Rivarol ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]