One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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