I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.