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

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

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.