But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Evil to some is always good to others