And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.