She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?