but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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.

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

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.