I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

to hope was to expect

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.