Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business..

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by….

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse..

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

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever..

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it..

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incompreh….

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief..

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied..

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner..

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure..

At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncom….

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion..

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?.

Without music, life would be a blank to me..

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy..

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes..

I have not the pleasure of understanding you..

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short..

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way..

When I fall in love, it will be forever..