But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.