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.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!