One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Know your own happiness.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.