Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.