“ The face that is round, plump, and ruddy, shows the person to be of an agreeable temper, well deserving of friendship, and faithful in love.
A face with very prominent cheek bones, thin and long visage, shows a restless disposition, and rarely satisfied with anything.
A face naturally pale, denotes the person very amorous.
Blue eyes are mostly to be depended on for fidelity, though there is never a rule without an exception, for many who are blue-eyed are capable of bad deeds. ”

“ If the hollow palm of the hand, which some call the Plain of Mars, is full of cross lines running into each other, the person will be of a humoursome, uneven, and testy temper, jealous and hasty, quarrelsome and fighting, and endeavouring to set others by the ears ”

“ When the line is broad, strong, and well marked, it shows the person to be of a sound constitution, peaceable, and contented mind; if it is broken it shows for every break, a violent interruption to happiness; if these breaks happen towards the part next the wrist, the person will be crossed in love, and either be disappointed in the person he has fixed his affections on, or be saddled with a person of a disobliging temper, and a most audacious and abusive tongue. ”

“ The dog being at all times the emblem of fidelity or envy, has also a two-fold meaning here. At the top, in the clear part, it signifies true and faithful friends; but, if surrounded with clouds and dashes, it shows that those whom you take for your friends are not to be depended on; but if the dog be at the bottom of the cup, you have to dread the effects of extreme envy or jealousy. ”

“ He that hath a neck short and small is wise, but deceitful, secret, constant, discreet, yet passionate and ingenious.
He that hath the neck fat and fleshy, is proud, therefore, he is compared to a bull, who is always ready to be angry. ”

“ The eyelids short and small, are thought wise and secret, yet covetous of great matters.
When the eyelids are long, and long hair on the eye-lashes, they signify a person of low sagacity, and false in his dealings. ”

“ The person that acts the fortune-teller must bend their thoughts upon the person who wishes their fortune told, and upon their rank and profession, in order to give plausibility to their predictions. It is not to be expected upon taking up the cup, that the figures will be accurately represented, and it is quite sufficient if they bear some resemblance to any of the following emblems. ”

“ A person having much and long hair on the eye brows, and both join across the nose, is a very simple person, but conceited in his own opinion.
When the eyebrows are short and heavy, it denotes the man good-natured and reasonable. ”

“ Dark eyes are generally suspicious, artful, and proud to deceit.
A very fair person is in general, indifferent, proud, neglectful to please, and though amorous, is to haughty to let the world believe they would think it worth the trouble.
A countenance tolerably pleasant and well formed, with dark-brown hair, may be depended upon for fidelity.
PALMISTRY.
THE palms of the hands contain a great variety of lines running in different directions, every one of which bears a certain relation to the events of a person’s life ”

“ Those that have them long and thin, are bold, impudent, unlearned, gluttons, and very proud in general.
Those that have them well proportioned, and neither too small or too large, are persons of good understanding, wise, discreet, honest, shame-faced and courageous. ”

“ If it represents only one mountain, it indicates the favour of people of high rank, but several of them, especially in the thick, are signs of powerful enemies ; in the clear, they signify the contrary, or friends in high life, who are endeavouring to promote the consulting party. ”