Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Almost anything is possible with time

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.