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

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.