“Evil to some is always good to others”

“Well, evil to some is always good to others.”

“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange, she would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement together, that good-humoured mutual affection, of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.”

“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.”

“How hard it is in some cases to be believed!''And how impossible in others!”

“...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...”