..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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

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.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.