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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.