Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

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

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.