There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

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

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

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.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.