Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.