The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

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