English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.