That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

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.

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

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.