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.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.