They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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.