A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.