The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
Henry Theodore TuckermanTo impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
Henry Theodore TuckermanIt is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.
Henry Theodore TuckermanThere are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman