Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say