This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.