[A] smile is hovering about her lips, as if some playful speech were awaiting the right hearer. – George Eliot, “Another Love-Scene,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, theyll say, God, he said exactly what I was thinking. And when they begin to respect you, theyll follow you to the death. – Lee Iacocca
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. – Jeremy Taylor
