Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.