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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adhe...more

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But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted...more

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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the l...more

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Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I ...more

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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civ...more

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

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

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To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lo...more