Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.