Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.