There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.