When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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.