Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.