Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like