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

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

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.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.