Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.