Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.