Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.