It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.