Persuasion

Everything united in him; good misunderstanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm hearth. He had strong feelings of family attachment and family honour, without pride or weakness; he lived with the liberality of a man of fortune, without display; he judged for himself in everything essential, without defying public opinion in any point of wordly decorum. He was steady, observant, moderate, candid; never run away with by spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value for the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess.

Persuasion, Jane Austen