The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

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.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.