Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.