There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. |
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. |
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . . |
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. |
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. |
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. |
Those who do not complain are never pitied |
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. |
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. |
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. |
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 our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. |
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 our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. |
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 our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. |
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. |
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. |