“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
“He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.”
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.”