“The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.”

“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.”

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

“and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." (Colonel Brandon)”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.”

“But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should he say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable. How were people, at that rate, to be understood?”