Frederick Saunders

Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Character is the governing element in life, and is above genius.

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 …

Faces are as legible as books, with this difference in their favor, that they may be perused in much less time than printed pages, and are less liable to be misunderstood.

Charity, in whatever guise she appears, is the best-natured and the best-complexioned thing in the world.

Kind words are benedictions; they are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the hearer and speaker of them. They cost us less effort and produce usually much more profit than harsh words.

Good humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most people are aware of.

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.

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 tell its evil tales.

the last of the ancients, and the first of the moderns.

Vanity, 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.

Dean Swift proposed to tax female beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully paid, and very productive.

Mammon is the largest slaveholder in the world.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

True it is, as society is constituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery—for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either case, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little …

How would that "excellent mystery"—wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship, but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light—it heightens effect.