Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.