the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.