I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.