Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.