“I know no man more likely than Mr. Knightley to do the sort of thing – to do any thing really good-natured, useful, considerate, or benevolent. He is not a gallant man, but he is a very humane one; – and for an act of unostentatious kindness, there is nobody whom I would fix on more than on Mr. Knightley.”
– Jane Austen
Emma, Chapter 26. Emma describes her high opinion of Mr. Knightley’s character and his tendency to acts of kindness towards others. She is reacting to Mrs. Weston telling her how Knightley brought his carriage to the Coles’s party in order to give Jane Fairfax a ride home and spare her having to walk. While she doesn’t realize it, Emma is describing the kind of qualities in Mr. Knightley that make her fall in love with him.