I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.