Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

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

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.