We look forward to the proverbial 'look-'em-in-the-eye' and handshake, and say, 'thank you.

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

The coast was clear.

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.