I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.