Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?