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.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.