A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

She attracted him more than he liked.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!