a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.