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.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

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

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Women are proverbially credulous.