“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”

“Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.”

“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

“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 flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.”