She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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 lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.