Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
Crimes generally punish themselves.