True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.