Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.