There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

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

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.