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.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

I do not cough for my own amusement.

Everything nourishes what is strong already

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)