A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

to hope was to expect

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.