The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.