‘There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.’

‘They may wish many things besides his happiness; they may wish his increase of wealth and consequence; they may wish him to marry a girl who has all the importance of money, great connections, and pride.’

‘Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on, as well as the plain.’