"Words may flatter you, but the countenance never can deceive you; the eyes are the windows of the soul, and through them you are to watch what passes in the inmost recesses of the heart."
An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification [from Letters for Literary Ladies]
Maria Edgeworth, <u>Letters for Literary Ladies</u> (London: Joseph Johnson, 1795). &lt;<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/edgeworth/ladies/ladies.html">Link to 2nd edition at UPenn's Celebration of Women Writers</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z1UJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;