What strange creatures brothers are!

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.