He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.