We do not suffer by accident.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

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

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

How can you contrive to write so even?