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

With a book he was regardless of time.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.