Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

Faultless in spite of all her faults.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.