There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.