A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!