We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civili…”

“…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usua…”

“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first c…”

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty …”