Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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

Each found her greatest safety in silence.