I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.