Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

I should not mind anything at all.