If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

We neither of us perform to strangers.