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

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.