Who said “I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time…”?

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

“A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!”

“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.”

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”

“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”

“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”