The trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state, when further beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

More from Mansfield Park

• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman’s constitution.
• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
• There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.