You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

What are men to rocks and mountains?