It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

I must have my share in the conversation.

one day in the country is exactly like another.