Could once their eye be turned on the beauty of being as it outshines the beauty of seeming, they would be saved
I scarce ever see young women who are not remarkably attractive without a wish an impulse to preach to them the doctrine of character. I have sad foresight of the mortifications that await them when I see what they look on. Could once their eye be turned on the beauty of being as it outshines the beauty of seeming, they would be saved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:389
