John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).