It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

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.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.