When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

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

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.