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

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

The less said the better.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.