If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Every savage can dance.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.