An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.