There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

She is loveliness itself.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.