We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.—From the French.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.—St. Evremond.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—Lavater.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.—Horace Mann.
Affection.—A loving heart is the truest wisdom.—Dickens.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.—Colossians 3:2.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.—Hawthorne.
A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.—Beecher.