Children Are What The Mothers Are.

I Hate False Words, And Seek With Care, Difficulty, And Moroseness, Those That Fit The Thing.

What Is Reading But Silent Conversation?

When A Cat Flatters ... He Is Not Insincere: You May Safely Take It For Real Kindness.

As There Are Some Flowers Which You Should Smell But Slightly To Extract All That Is Pleasant In Them ... So There Are Some Men With Whom A Slight Acquaintance Is Quite Sufficient To Draw Out All That Is Agreeable; A More Intimate One Would Be Unsafe And Unsatisfactory.

Not Dancing Well, I Never Danced At All--and How Grievously Has My Heart Ached When Others Where In The Full Enjoyment Of That Conversation Which I Had No Right Even To Partake.