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Clara Barton—the pitying sweetness which fills her eyes and the sympathetic lines which have been drawn about her mouth bear witness to a long intimacy with suffering and death.
Central (Mo.) Christian Advocate. (1912)
Physiognomy is the language of the face. Jeremy Collier.
Physiognomy is reading the handwriting of nature upon the human countenance. Chatfield.
Palmistry is a science as old as the history of the human race. The mind deceives; the hand tells the truth; the thumb in particular, the tell-tale of character.
Dolores Cortez, Queen of the Spanish Gypsies.
Show me an outspread hand and I’ll show you whether or not its master is honest, is kind, is affectionate.
Arthur Delroy, Author.
Human nature, as unfolded by phrenology, is being universally accepted by all classes of people. Cranium.
Phrenology can be used in every phase of life. C. S. Hardison.
Phrenology is very fruitful in its capacity to paint mental images.
Miss Jessie Allen Fowler.
Phrenology,—a science that has been of great help to us in the progress of life. Doctor Charles H. Shepard.
The shape of the brain may generally be ascertained by the form of the skull. O. S. and L. N. Fowler.
Phrenology professes to point out a connection between certain manifestations of the mental and peculiar conditions and developments of the brain. O. S. and L. N. Fowler.
Of all the people in England, I was most glad to meet Doctor L. N. Fowler, the same gentle, kind man he used to be so many years ago, and who has done so much for the middle classes of England, giving them helpful advice they could not get from other sources. Clara Barton.
Remembering that fully one-fifth of my life (1856) has been passed as a teacher in schools, it is not strange that I should feel some interest in the cause of education. Clara Barton.
’Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. Alexander Pope.