... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.