To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.