There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

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

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

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

All finery is a sign of littleness.

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