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.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

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.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.