I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.