General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

What strange creatures brothers are!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

How can I dispose of myself with it?