Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.