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

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

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

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.

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

Life is the soul's nursery.