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.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.