What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.