When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.