His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

to hope was to expect

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.