I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.