Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.