To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

I love you. Most ardently.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.