To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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.

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

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.