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

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

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.