My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.