Large parties given to very young children . . . foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child."

What a wonderful faculty is memory! --the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being. . .

"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

"When things come to the worse, they generally mend."

""I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.""