A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.