I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

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

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.