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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

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Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being inter...more

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent ...more

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You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy.  Society is becomi...more

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or...more

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My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good co...more

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Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent,...more

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You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt ...more