It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.