Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.