Sir Francis Bacon
Originally from Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597)
Taken from Gateway to the Great Books, Volume Five: Critical Essays (1990)
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.