A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

I should not mind anything at all.