“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.