Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!