I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.