Clara Lucas Balfour Quote

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real...

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real...

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real...

A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real...