I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.