Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.