To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.