I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

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

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

I walk: I prefer walking.