You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.