An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I have no talent for certainty.

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.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself