My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.