It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!