Dress is an index of your contents.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.