Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense