Mrs. Alloway explained to her that ladies were meant for hoops and finery, for accomplishment in verse and music and other anodynic arts […].

Gods deſign in giving us the Scripture was to make us as happy as our nature is capable of being ; and the Scripture is excellently adapted to this end : for as to our eternal felicity , all that believe there is any ſuch ſtate , muſt acknowledg the Scripture chalks us out the ready way to it : not only becauſe ’tis dictated by God who infallibly knows it , but alſo by its preſcribing thoſe things which are in themſelves beſt ; and which a ſober Heathen would adjudg fitteſt to be rewarded.

The more I learned about transkids, the more I grilled you, every day. I'm ashamed of my relentlessness, but I had to know. “Why do you want to be a boy?” “I don't know.”

He is looking the very picture of health, and on the whole his dreams are felicitous. For instance, last night he dreamt that he had been buying strawberries as large as gourds. It proves the magnificent vitality of his dreams.