She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself