A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.