And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.