..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

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

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.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?