She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.