The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.