The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.