To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt