I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.