Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
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.
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.