And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.