I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.