You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

I am all astonishment.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!