How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.