I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.