...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.

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

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.