her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.