We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.