I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

She attracted him more than he liked.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!