There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.