There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

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

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.