Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.