Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Life is the soul's nursery.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.