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

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

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

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

The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.