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

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

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