Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Beware how you give your heart.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.