You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.