Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

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

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