If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--i….

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of..

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible..

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

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like..

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−infor….

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure..

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to….

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not l….

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it..

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . .….

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required..

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it..

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former h….

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible..

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides..

She was stronger alone..

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act..

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh..

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours..

I am all astonishment..