Wit Is Often Its Own Worst Enemy.

Those Who Are Animated By Hope Can Perform What Would Seem Impossibilities To Those Who Are Under The Depressing Influence Of Fear.

How Is It That Hope So Powerfully Excites, And Fear So Absolutely Depresses All Our Faculties?

Remember, We Can Judge Better By The Conduct Of People Towards Others Than By Their Manner Towards Ourselves.

A Love-match Was The Only Thing For Happiness, Where The Parties Could Any Way Afford It.

My Mother Took Too Much, A Great Deal Too Much, Care Of Me; She Over-educated, Over-instructed, Over-dosed Me With Premature Lessons Of Prudence: She Was So Afraid That I Should Ever Do A Foolish Thing, Or Not Say A Wise One, That She Prompted My Every Word, And Guided My Every Action. So I Grew Up, Seeing With Her Eyes, Hearing With Her Ears, And Judging With Her Understanding, Till, At Length, It Was Found Out That I Had Not Eyes, Ears Or Understanding Of My Own.