Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.