There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.