The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

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

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.