A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it …