She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.