I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.