One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.