But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.