Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.