His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

We are all fools in love.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.