To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.