They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.