In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?