To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
When I fall in love, it will be forever.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.