The groundwork of all happiness is health.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

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

Patience and gentleness is power.

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.

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