What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?.

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfie….

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. An….

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit..

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talk….

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world..

I should not mind anything at all..

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power..

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think….

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she tho….

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority..

Arguments are too much like disputes..

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either..

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I trust that absolutes have gradations..

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!.

Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be..

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall..

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going thr….

I should infinitely prefer a book..