Who first said this now tired quote?

“The eyes are the windows to the soul.” At first, I thought it was something picked up from Oprah, like fleas. Then, I thought maybe Danielle Steel said it. But, recently I have older references to this quote.

Do the SDopers know its true origins?

  • Jinx

It is a 16th Century Proverb

Or a liberal translation of Matthew 6:22, 23

"These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. "

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544-1590), Divine Weekes and Workes