How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and read more

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Gloomy as night he stands.

Gloomy as night he stands.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the read more

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a
passage through it.