There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.