If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.