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.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.