“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

“My heart is, and always will be, yours.”

“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.”

“Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude ... have any possible claim on me.”

“What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...”

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”

“There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.”