We neither of us perform to strangers.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.