One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.