The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.