We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

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