If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.