Almost anything is possible with time

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.