All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. – Evelyn Underhill
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. – Evelyn Underhill
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell