I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

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

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.