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.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

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

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

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.