Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.