She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.