if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.