it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.