How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

to hope was to expect

The less said the better.