My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.