"That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue." (42)
"A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others." (180)
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition." (222)
"Elinor could not be cheerful. Her joy was of a different kind, and led to anything other than gaity. Marianne, restored to life, health, friends, and to her doting mother, was an idea to fill her heart with sensations of exquisite comfort, and expand it in fervent gratitude; but it led to no outward demonstrations of joy, no words, no smiles. All within Elinor's breast was satisfaction, silent and strong." (278)
"'The whole of his behavior,' replied Elinor, 'from the beginning to the end of the affair, has been grounded on selfishness. It was selfishness which first made him sport with your affections; which afterward, when his own were engaged, made him delay the confession of it, and which finally carried him to Barton. His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." (310)
