I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.