To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

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

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.