How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

Time did not compose her.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!