Letters of different sizes show unreliability of nature, exaggerating trifles and ignoring more important things.
Light and fine writing means delicacy of feeling, but if carried to excess it shows fastidiousness.
FOURTHLY.—The connections of the letters with each other must be judged. If the connecting stroke is long, it shows some facility in talking and expression, the power of using words well, not talkativeness.
Letters ingeniously connected show constructiveness, but should they be separate, we get perception and intuition.
Any eccentricity indicates that the person's career has not been ordinary. Marked originality, especially of capitals, shows unusual taste. Tremulous tendency resulting neither from illness nor old age—Irritability. Highly restrained, small—Refractory disposition, difficult to live with. Regular and well-placed lines, followed by those careless and irregular—A mind quick to embark on an enterprise, but lacking perseverance. Back-handed less susceptible than inclined—The head ruling the heart.
Generally the body of the letter or specimen gives the present character, the signature the past.
CROTCHETS.—Egotism, self-satisfaction (a return upon self.)
HARPOONS (HOOKS).—Tenacity, united perhaps with weak will.
DASHES.—Perfectly straight—Persistence.
Undulating.—Art, levity.