Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.