...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.