The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
—Eliza Farnham
Topics: Truth
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
—Eliza Farnham
Topics: Face, Faces
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with the power to drag the soul to perdition.
—Eliza Farnham
Topics: Mankind, Man, Body
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
—Eliza Farnham
Topics: Art, Artists, Arts
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