I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.