A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.