To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.