When Driven To The Necessity Of Explaining,

Young Ladies Who Think Of Nothing But Dress, Public Amusements, And Forming What They Call High Connexions, Are Undoubtedly Most Easily Managed, By The Fear Of What The World Will Say Of Them.

[on Collectors Of Quotations:] How Far Our Literature May In Future Suffer From These Blighting Swarms, Will Best Be Conceived By A Glance At What They Have Already Withered And Blasted Of The Favourite Productions Of Our Most Popular Poets.

Sometimes The Very Faults Of Parents Produce A Tendency To Opposite Virtues In Their Children.

I Find The Love Of Garden Grows Upon Me As I Grow Older More And More. Shrubs And Flowers And Such Small Gay Things, That Bloom And Please And Fade And Wither And Are Gone And We Care Not For Them, Are Refreshing Interests, In Life, And If We Cannot Say Never Fading Pleasures, We May Say Unreproved Pleasures And Never Grieving Losses.

The Unaffected Language Of Real Feeling And Benevolence Is Easily Understood, And Is Never Ridiculous.