It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.