What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.