We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.