C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Beard
Beard was never the true standard of brains.
Fuller.
Beards, in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
Macaulay.
Shakespeare.
How many cowards wear yet upon their chins the beards of Hercules and frowning Mars!
Shakespeare.
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr’s remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
G. A. Sala.