She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

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

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.

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.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

The worst of faces still is human.