Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

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

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.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.