If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

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

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

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