The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

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

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.