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.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

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

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.