We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.