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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.