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

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.