No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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.