He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.