It's such a happiness when good people get together.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.