Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

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.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.