Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. I have seen an eye curse for half an hour together, and an eyebrow call a man a scoundrel.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.