We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.