A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

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.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

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.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

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