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

What strange creatures brothers are!

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.