There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.