And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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.

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.