I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don’t know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
A person can’t help their birth.