Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

one day in the country is exactly like another.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.