Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

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