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

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Success supposes endeavour.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.