Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.