to hope was to expect

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.