Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.