I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.