Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison