e greatest and best of men
is but an aphorism.--_Coleridge._

Proverbs are potted wisdom.--_Charles Buxton._

~Appeal.~--Seeing all men are not [OE]dipuses to read the riddle of
another man's inside, and most men judge by appearances, it behooves a
man to barter for a good esteem, even from his clothes and outside. We
guess the goodness of the pasture by the mantle we see it
wears.--_Feltham._

~Appearances.~--It is the appearances that fill the scene; and we pause
not to ask of what realities they are the proxies. When the actor of
Athens moved all hearts as he clasped the burial urn, and burst into
broken sobs, how few then knew that it held the ashes of his
son!--_Bulwer-Lytton._

What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to
dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not
describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways--in
the rank frauds committed by men who dare to be dishonest, but do not
dare to seem poor; and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the
pity is not so much for those who fail, as for the hundreds of innocent
families who are so often involved in their ruin.--_Samuel Smiles._

Foolish men mistake transitory semblances for eternal fact, and go
astray more and more.--_Carlyle._

What is a good appearance? It is not being pompous and starchy; for
proud looks lose hearts, and gentle words win them. It is not wearing
fine clothes; for such dressing tells the world that the outside is the
better part of the man. You cannot judge a horse by his harness; but a
modest, gentlemanly appearance, in which the dress is such as no one
could comment upon, is the right and most desirable thing.--_Spurgeon._

He was a man who stole the livery of the court of heaven to serve the
devil in.--_Pollok._

I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what
they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that
gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.--_Charles
Buxton._

~Appetite.~--Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending
not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I
look upon it, that he who does not mind this, will hardly mind anything
else.--_Johnson._

Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; pray Heaven we be not scant
of meat or mirth.--_Shakespeare._

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.--_I