What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.