Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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