Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.