Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.