The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.