The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.