The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

How can you contrive to write so even?

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.