Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.