I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

You have delighted us long enough.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.