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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
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Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.
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"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
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