The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.