Who said “A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so…”?

“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”

“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.”

“We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”

“The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.”

“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”

“All nature wears one universal grin.”

“One fool at least in every married couple.”

“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

“Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.”

“When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.”