A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
But, God knows best, I concluded.
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.