He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.