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

Till this moment I never knew myself.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.