Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.