I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.