I do not cough for my own amusement.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.