She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Fashion is a capricious deity.