I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.
All beginnings are very troublesome things.
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.