Much good is done by the influence of friends properly employed.

'Tis the secret of our success in the actual condition of Venice; for that which power cannot achieve must be trusted to favor and a wise moderation." "Your declarations encourage me to become, once more, a suitor; for I will confess that, in addition to the desire of doing you honor, I have come equally with the wish to urge your great influence in behalf of an earnest suit I have." "What now! Our young charge, Donna Florinda, has inherited, with the fortunes of her family, its ancient habits of patronage and protection! But we will not discourage the feeling, for it has a worthy origin, and, used with discretion, it fortifies the noble and powerful in their stations." "And may we not say," mildly observed Donna Florinda, "that when the affluent and happy employ themselves with the cares of the less fortunate, they not only discharge a duty, but they cultivate a wholesome and useful state of mind ?" "Doubt it not.

Nothing can be more useful than to give to each class in society, a proper sense of its obligations, and a just sentiment of its duties.

These are opinions I greatly approve, and which I desire my ward may thoroughly understand." "She is happy in possessing instructors so able and so willing to teach all she should know," rejoined Violetta.
"With this admission, may I ask the Signor Gradenigo to give ear to my petition ?" "Thy little requests are ever welcome.

I would merely observe, that generous and ardent temperaments sometimes regard a distant object so steadily, as to overlook others that are not only nearer, and perhaps of still more urgent importance, but more attainable.