The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Silence is one great art of conversation.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.