To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

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

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.