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

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

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.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

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.

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

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