You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
The eye is inlet to the soul.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
