The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.