A girl in love will do a good deal.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

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

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.