To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.