Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

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