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 not romantic, you know; I never was.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

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