It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.