What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

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

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.