I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Little things are great to little men.

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.