But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.