It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

Success supposes endeavour.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.