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

The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

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.

Colors are the smiles of nature.