“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love”

“I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.”

“Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?”

“And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.”

“Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?”