As in a mirror.
The best mirror is an old friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Beauty's choicest mirror is an admiring eye. [ J. L. Basford ]
To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. [ William Shakespeare ]
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. [ Hawthorne ]
The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. [ John Ruskin ]
The soul of the poet is the mirror of the world.
In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. [ German Proverb ]
Such another peerless queen only could her mirror show. [ Emerson ]
Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his image. [ Goethe ]
Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows his image. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. [ Ovid ]
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has, a friend. [ W. R, Alger ]
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]
Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is. [ Plutarch ]
We see time's furrows on another's brow; how few themselves in that just mirror see! [ Young ]
The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. [ Confucius ]
All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. [ Cervantes ]
No improvement that takes place if either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in. reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. [ Colton ]
Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. [ Tuckerman ]
As well might a lovely woman look daily in her mirror, yet not be aware of her beauty, as a great soul be unconscious of the powers with which Heaven has gifted him; not so much for himself, as to enlighten others - a messenger from God Himself, with a high and glorious mission to perform. Woe unto him who abuses that mission! [ Chambers ]
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]