Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.