The face of the sister of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahiyyih Khanum, although shadowed by age, was so full of love and a genuine interest in life and people that we did not think of her as old, but rather as ageless and eternal. The freshness of the beauty of love radiating from her captivated us.
- Sylvia Paine (Star of the West, vol. 23, no. 12, March 1933)