Nature never writes a blind hand. [ T. Starr King ]

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Trust not too much to an enchanting face. [ Virgil ]

There is a certain physiognomy in manners. [ Joseph Cook ]

There is no art whereby to find the mind's construction in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner. [ Dickens ]

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured by inches in a man's face. [ Benjamin West ]

The expressive word quiet defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. [ N. P. Willis ]

There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other. [ Butler ]

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]

Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]