Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress