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

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

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

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?