An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.