To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.