We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.