'Why,' said I - 'why should you suppose that I dislike the place?' 'You told me so yourself,' was the decisive reply. 'You said, at least, that you could not live contentedly, without a friend; and that you had no friend here, and no possibility of making one - and, besides, I know you must dislike it.'

'If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims,' said I, with affected indifference, 'you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it di…

'But I can't devote myself entirely to a child,' said she; 'it may die - which is not at all improbable.' 'But, with care, many a delicate infant has become a …

'I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy,' he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield…

Amicus Plato - amicus Aristoteles - magis amica veritas

The observer is the observed.

I know myself, and I have such a sense of religion that I shall never do anything which I would not do before the whole world; but I am alarmed at the very tho…