Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.