“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

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

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

“Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.”

“Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?”

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”