Nature's hasty conscience.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.