A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished
exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the
real value of what is contained therein.--_Mrs. Balfour._
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the
beautiful, but the willful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the
superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all
concretes,--the vulgar.--_Leigh Hunt._
~Faults.~--To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to
discover them to one's friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to
preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is
pride.--_Confucius._
The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the
offspring of guilt.--_Goldsmith._
~Fear.~--It is no ways congruous that God should be frightening men into
truth who were made to be wrought upon by calm evidence and gentle
methods of persuasion.--_Atterbury._
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.--_Sir
P. Sidney._