Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

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

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.