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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
I was quiet but I was not blind.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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.
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
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