It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.