Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.