~Appeal.~--Seeing all men are not [OE]dipuses to read the riddle of
another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a
man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We
guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see it
wears.--_Feltham._
~Appearances.~--It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pause
not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of
Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst into
broken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of his
son!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to
dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not
describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways--in
the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not
dare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the
pity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocent
families who are so often involved in their ruin.--_Samuel Smiles._
Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go
astray more and more.--_Carlyle._
What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; for
proud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearing
fine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is the
better part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but a
modest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no one
could comment upon, is the right and most desirable thing.--_Spurgeon._
He was a man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the
devil in.--_Pollok._
I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what
they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that
gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.--_Charles
Buxton._
~Appetite.~--Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending
not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I
look upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anything
else.--_Johnson._
Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant
of meat or mirth.--_Shakespeare._
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.--_Izaak Walton._
And do as adversaries do in law,--strive mightily, but eat and drink as
friends.--_Shakespeare._
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first
hour.--_Brillat Savarin._
~Appreciation.~--Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit;
but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.--_Colton._
It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we
enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the
value.--_Shakespeare._
A man is known to his dog by the smell--to the tailor by the coat--to
his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how
much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and
indeed characteristic of man is known only to God.--_Ruskin._
He who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than he
seems.--_Goethe._
Light is above us, and color surrounds us; but if we have not light and
color in our eyes, we shall not perceive them outside us.--_Goethe._
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great
thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire
it.--_Joubert._
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read
it are no longer the same interpreters.--_George Eliot._
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty
the power of appreciating beauty.--_Margaret Fuller._