Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

How can you contrive to write so even?