There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

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

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.