Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.