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Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

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I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinio...more

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon fli...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot a...more

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar befor...more

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to o...more

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Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of ...more