Dress is an index of your contents. [ Lavater ]
Thy face the index of a feeling mind. [ Crabbe ]
In youth, the artless index of the mind. [ Horace Mann ]
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. [ O. W. Holmes ]
An index is the soul of a book; it is the key to its essence of thought. [ James Ellis ]
The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. [ Wordsworth ]
The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit, and the results of its civilization. [ J. G. Holland ]
Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind. [ George Canning ]
One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]